[Linux-cluster] Is GFS2 stable for production system?

Kevin Anderson kanderso at redhat.com
Thu Nov 13 20:07:40 UTC 2008


Single node GFS2 has been pretty stable since May/June timeframe of this
year, not sure which kernel version this mapped into.  We did an errata
release post RHEL 5.2 with a couple of fixes in a special gfs2-kmod rpm,
but still is considered tech preview from a support perspective.

Kevin

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 13:01 -0700, Andrew Neuschwander wrote:
> Does this mean that it should work fine (i.e. no known issues) as a
> local only file system (one node, with lock_nolock)?
> 
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> Kevin Anderson wrote:
> > For anything prior to the latest Fedora 9/10 kernels and RHEL 5.3, GFS2
> > is not considered stable and has known blatant issues with cluster
> > coherent operations.   RHEL 5.3 beta has been released with a working
> > GFS2. This will move from our tech preview status to supported when RHEL
> > 5.3 GA version.  No one should be running GFS2 in a cluster production
> > environment prior to these versions.
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 02:31 +0800, Achievement Chan wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >> Is GFS2 stable for production system? Is it still not defined as
> >> stable by redhat?
> >>
> >> I would like to use it with apache, and courier-imap (Maildir format mailbox)
> >>
> >> reagrds,
> >> Achievement Chan
> >>
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